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Active new Premier Paul Reynaud last week ordered Minister of Interior Henri Roy to get ready a decree making any further Communist or Nazi agitation in France punishable by long imprisonment or death. Police said current Red propaganda in France almost exactly duplicates Nazi propaganda urging the Allies to make immediate peace. Sensation of the Paris trial of 44 Communist ex-Deputies (TIME, April 8) was a declaration by the chief defendant, Communist Florimond Bonte. He said that he and his fellow prisoners "deserved well" of France for urging prompt peace with Germany on Adolf Hitler's terms...
...return to London for the reconvening of Parliament this week, Great Britain's bewilderment had given birth to deep-seated public dissatisfaction with the way its Government was running the "strangest of wars." While the Allied Supreme War Council talked tough, while France's new Premier Paul Reynaud promised action of some sort, Great Britain contented herself with recalling all her Balkan envoys for a talkfest...
...everyone utterly bewildered. There was talk of sending an Ambassador back to Moscow, even though Premier Molotov was making such aspersive remarks about Italy's Albanian grab that the Italian press would not print them. Il Duce moved to renew the British trade talks, and French Premier Reynaud had a long and apparently pleasant talk with Ambassador Raffaele Guariglia. But as French Ambassador André François-Poncet returned to Paris, L'Oeuvre commented: "It's not a secret that he didn't obtain impressive results at Rome...
...London for his first session as a top member of the Supreme Allied War Council went crinkle-eyed little Paul Reynaud, France's new more-action Premier, potential Clemenceau of World War II. Both his electorate and the British expected some sign of new energy from the Council. They got a formal communiqué: "[Both Governments] mutually undertake that during the present war they will neither negotiate nor conclude an armistice or treaty of peace except by mutual agreement. . . . They undertake to maintain after conclusion of peace a community of action for so long as may be necessary...
...Paris sped General Maxime Weygand, Commander of French forces in the Near East, to report to Premier Reynaud...